University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
NeuroRehabilitation. 2011;28(3):271-80. doi: 10.3233/NRE-2011-0655.
A person's ability to be independent is dependent on his or her overall health, mobility, and ability to complete activities of daily living. Intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) are devices that incorporate context into their decision-making process, which enables them to provide customised and dynamic assistance in an appropriate manner. IATs have tremendous potential to support people with cognitive impairments as they can be used to support many facets of well-being; from augmenting memory and decision making tasks to providing autonomous and early detection of possible changes in health. This paper presents IATs that are currently in development in the research community to support tasks that can be impacted by compromised cognition. While they are not yet ready for the general public, these devices showcase the capabilities of technologies one can expect to see in the consumer marketplace in the near future.
一个人的独立能力取决于他或她的整体健康状况、活动能力和完成日常生活活动的能力。智能辅助技术 (IAT) 是一种将情境纳入其决策过程的设备，使它们能够以适当的方式提供定制化和动态的辅助。IAT 具有巨大的潜力，可以为认知障碍者提供支持，因为它们可用于支持福祉的许多方面；从增强记忆和决策任务到提供自主和早期检测健康可能发生的变化。本文介绍了研究界正在开发的 IAT，以支持可能受到认知障碍影响的任务。虽然它们还没有准备好面向大众，但这些设备展示了人们在不久的将来可以在消费市场上看到的技术的能力。
